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drŏmos , i, m., = δρόμος.
I. A place for running; a race-course, Grut. Inscr. 339, 2.—
II. Esp., as nom. prop., Drŏmŏs , i, m., the plain near Sparta, on which the Lacedaemonian youth exercised, Liv. 34, 27, 5.—
2. Dromos Achilleos, a peninsula west of the Crimea, on which Achilles was said to have run a race, Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 83.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 34, 27.5
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